I’ve got a mate who works in French football (a Leeds fan) who is pretty bemused as to why N’Koudou didn’t make more of an impact last season – he thinks he’s got the potential to be a very very good player.

Willie!
One thing Walker does very well is shield the ball using his body and strength to hold off attackers, letting the ball run out of play. Many times where he uses his pace to get between the opposition player and a long ball, and they never get on the end of it, ball goes out, we regain possession. Trips doesn’t really have that skillset, and probably never will because he’s not built like Walker.

One thing Walker does very poorly is shield the ball using his body and strength to hold off attackers…

I’ve lost count of the number of times he tried this only for it to blow up in his face. If I was asked to nominate the one thing that really frustrated me about his game it would be this.

Harry Hotspur
Syd, I hate to break it to you old girl but I take no pleasure from No’Cluedo being shit.
It disappoints me further that the player is incapable, utterly incapable of impressing Poch to a sufficient degree that despite being given endless opportunities all week long in training at one of the world’s finest training facilities he still can’t achieve greater trust than being used to make up the numbers on the bench.
If you think you’ve seen something in the charity minutes he gets in games that are already won and over, all to the good. I see an athlete who is not very good at playing football.

Hi Aitch. I think the clue is in the fact that he does not appear to be up for sale and Poch wants him around.
He is young and should get more game time this season

Fowler saying he think’s were in for a Striker this summer and Josh King’s the man he’s been told… Will that be a replacement for Jansen or along side him? Can’t see Jansen getting any playing time if King does arrive id say he’d be on his way. Personally id rather the likes of Domenico Berardi or Keita Balde both can play as wingers or strikers….

We all wish Vinny well and who know’s he could become a great forward but playing second fiddle to Kane isn’t going to make him a better player. We could loan him somewhere to play regularly and develop but if we move for another forward of a similar age then his days are numbered. I agree with Fowler’s piece that Vinny lacks the quality, sadly…

Perhaps it isn’t quality so much but Kane is quite a unique forward, he’s part supporting target man, part number 10, part wide player, part poacher. When Kane doesn’t play those around him mis that rounded game and forward play.

Absolutely and I think the failure in part last season that when Janssen came in for Kane last season he was expected to play the same way. If Janssen is to play this season we need to adapt formations to get the best out of him

Well new english record fee for walker, amazing amount of money for a player who if he didn’t have pace would be asking if you want to upgrade your meal deal. Levy has taken Citeh’s pants down with that one. I think walker is average at best & will be sitting on the bench once Guardiola realises he can’t cross the ball for toffee.

Harry Hotspur
Syd, I hate to break it to you old girl but I take no pleasure from No’Cluedo being shit.
It disappoints me further that the player is incapable, utterly incapable of impressing Poch to a sufficient degree that despite being given endless opportunities all week long in training at one of the world’s finest training facilities he still can’t achieve greater trust than being used to make up the numbers on the bench.
If you think you’ve seen something in the charity minutes he gets in games that are already won and over, all to the good. I see an athlete who is not very good at playing football.

Its quite possible tha Poch is looking for something other than ball control,speed and desire. Like maybe if you are not tackling you cant be in the team. But so far he hasnt sold him.
There is something to say for the attributes NKoudoo has. Maybe he will get more chances.

Poch sees him all day everyday and STILL only gives him charity minutes.

Me saying ‘he’s shit’ once a week one a blog isn’t part of the equation.

You want to see more of him – I want to see more of player that Poch wants to see more of. That player is not No’Cluedo. I’ve said this before, but if the boy played for West Brom not a single Spurs fan would be talking about him. He’s an anonymous piece of junk as was Clinton Cards before him.

Andy,Jose is our Director in the Ronglish Espania division,our sector on the Iberian peninsular. Feel free to join. It helps out our expenses when we travel corporately to the Costa del Sol thats all.
But Ronglish international cant actually take any responsibility for anything that happens in that tin pot dictatorship country. Theres just too much payella.

2 things today.
number one I’ve changed my mind on the new psychedelic training kit now that I’ve seen the squad wearing them whilst training it actually looks very good and number 2 HH. I don’t know why you think Nkoudou is no good. every time he’s come on he looks pretty Sharp

Syd, I hate to break it to you old girl but I take no pleasure from No’Cluedo being shit.

It disappoints me further that the player is incapable, utterly incapable of impressing Poch to a sufficient degree that despite being given endless opportunities all week long in training at one of the world’s finest training facilities he still can’t achieve greater trust than being used to make up the numbers on the bench.

If you think you’ve seen something in the charity minutes he gets in games that are already won and over, all to the good. I see an athlete who is not very good at playing football.

Nkoudou is an attacking player and there weren’t many games last season where we needed our formation to be more attacking. He’s not really the player to bring on to retain a lead.
He also plays in a position where last year the first teamers in his position stayed fit and were our most regular players

One thing Walker does very well is shield the ball using his body and strength to hold off attackers, letting the ball run out of play. Many times where he uses his pace to get between the opposition player and a long ball, and they never get on the end of it, ball goes out, we regain possession. Trips doesn’t really have that skillset, and probably never will because he’s not built like Walker.

So with bonzo faz bentaleb & mcgee gone this summer that’s got to be around £65m in the pot without Clinton cards so that’s £70m ish with our net spend over the last few years at £0 & the increased TV money where is our Marquee signing? Our statement of intent? I know big fish don’t swim well in small ponds but come on we’re building a lake don’t you know

Why didn’t Daniel spin this out until late September, he’s slipping. Someone posted Federico’s highlight reel at Spurs, I’ll pass on that one, I’m waiting for the Sissoko Spurs highlight reel, make a night of it. No fee mentioned?

I’ve just got back from a most unpleasant afternoon playing bowls in the rain: we got hammered 14-0 — it’s not possible to lose by a bigger score.

But anyway, one of the guys we were playing against is a Swansea City season ticket holder. He’s understandably concerned about the prospect of losing Sigurdsson, but he also said that Alfie Mawson is one hell of a footballer.

Hopefully the rumours about our interest in him are more than just rumours.

had a delivery guy at my site last week who drinks with Alfie Mawson’s dad, his dad lives in Northolt & is a mad gooner but Alfie is a qpr fan apparently. Anyhow all the talk of him coming to us is total bollox made up by some journo’s who had a five second conversation with his dad. His dad wants him to go to l’arse and would be mortified if he signed for us. ITK from the horses mouth

Walker was also once filmed on a live periscope claiming to be “Tottenham ‘til I die”, and will face his former club in Nashville, Tennessee later this month as part of City’s preseason tour of the US.

Would be interesting to know the stat for how many ‘brainfarts’ Hugo has had since he’s been at the club versus Bonzo over the same period, and in each case how many of those resulted in goals conceeded. Just saying.

Don’t mean to put a dampener on things but Trippier still has to convince me that he can defend playing at the very top level. He hasn’t Walkers pace but seems to have a far better footballing brain. My main concern is when we have had to start Davies & Trippier at full back in games we are very short of pace out wide with our style of play.

Trippier’s a worse defender than Walker, but not by all that much. However, he’s vastly superior going forward and a much, much better crosser. I have no challenge with Trippier taking Kyle’s place because he contributes more overall.

Walker got much more stick than he deserved, has been a great player for us and at the end of the day was/is a top right back. You can focus on the weaknessess on anyone’s game but he got us out of schtick far far more than he got us into it but of coure everyone only ever seems to concentrate on the brainfarts, which is just lazy. Oh and Guardiola and shitty are supposed to be utterly clueless fuckwits happy to pay 54 milion for an obvious dud, ha!

He was a decent defender, no doubt still is. He was limited going forward. Trippier makes better decisions in that regard and doesn’t get caught being undecided in what ball he ought to play. I don’t hate Walker, and don’t hate him for leaving. I’m not going to make some nonsensical remarks about how he’s somehow out of touch and obsessed by money, as others have. He’s perfectly entitled to have his payday and owes us nothing.

You’re gonna need to learn to spill the beans on what you know then, or make up some bollocks that could arguably relate to something already reported in the press. Or come out with some apparently coded message. Such as “blue and yellow”. Up for the challenge?